Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-deck sidewheeler with a 20,000-sq.-ft. dance floor, the Island Queen operated out of Cincinnati, where for years she had made daily summertime trips to an amusement park called Coney Island. When the Coney Island season closed on Labor Day, she went barnstorming upriver, booked ten days of excursions out of Pittsburgh...
From educators, Taylor got even less support. The University of Houston snapped: "Not in favor." Said the University of Cincinnati: "Neither feasible nor desirable." Said the University of Chicago: "We got out of college football in 1939 and have no intention of returning." Kentucky's Transylvania College tartly replied: '"These are times when such boldness needs to be directed toward the harder, less spectacular task of educating, not entertaining, people...
...travel with the club. In two cities, Jackie said, he had hotel trouble; he was not welcome at the Chase, where the Brooklyn club stays in St. Louis, or at Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin. ("They fooled me," said Jackie. "I thought it would be St. Louis and Cincinnati...
People called Milt a tom-walker† because he lost a leg marching through Georgia with Sherman, and thereafter wore a peg strapped to the stump. One day in 1866, when he was barely 17, Milt swung himself off the steam cars at Cincinnati and hobbled off to see his family again and his best girl. Lucinda took one look at his peg leg and wept. But they were married anyhow, and after the ceremony the bridegroom got drunk, punched his best man in the teeth, and sang bawdy songs for the guests. "Oh, the vulgar, degrading army," moaned...
...service. Launched in Glasgow in 1924, the steel-hulled Queen has served most of her time as a West Coast ferry. In her new role as one of the Mississippi's few extant sternwheelers, she will offer -air-conditioned accommodations for up to 200 passengers on trips between Cincinnati and New Orleans...